he's been insulted by trump. he's, he's decided that that's it. >> narrator: in the west wing, all hell broke loose. >> don mcgahn, the legal counsel, bursts into reince priebus' office and says, "we've got trouble. not only do we have a special counsel appointed, but jeff sessions has just resigned." priebus says, "you're kidding me." heiebus goes running down the staircase intoest wing parking lot. >> finds sessions in his car preparing to lea, and he bangs on the door. "you got to come out. you got to come back in. you can't leave this w you can't just blow up like this." and priebus essentially almost has to drag him back up into the west wing, where vice president pence and steve bannon then come in and joinpr bus and talk sessions off the ledge. >> it's clear that the mueller ininvestigation is just ge started. we're going to head to washington, where the e house... >> narrator: across town, in an undisclosed secure location, the new special counsel, robert s. mueller iii, was just getting started. >> wheyo

trump. in the 1950's, trump lived in a trump's-owned -- woody guthrie trump-owned building in brooklyn. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with nermeen shaikh. "the new york times" expose, the reporters referenced several reporters who did groundbreaking work on trump's finances. one of them was the late wayne barrett who wrote the book "trump: the deals and the downfall." he appeared on [captioning made possible by democracy now!] in 2016 and said fred trump's financial support of donald trump was "unbelievably crucial in donald's rise to prominence. >> be opened his first office in manhattan, the rent was paid by his father's company out here on avenue the and brooklyn. everything that he did, whether be the grand hyatt, for example, to get the financing, he got the financing from two banks that his father had used, used his father's relationship banker. and the father had to sign the financing agreements. they're not going to get a 30 milli

trump: nice man. the casualties of the democrats open border crusade are really a lot and far more than anyone would know of innocent american families and lives. democrat immigration policies allow poisonous drugs and ms 13 killers to pour into our country. these are not people that you don't want to have ice around. ice goes into the nests like it is a day in the office. even tough guys here, you don't want to do it. she has done it, she said. if you did it, you didn't do it by choice. she said, no i didn't. what is this story all about? come on up your -- no, i'm kidding. sanctuary cities and this is what happens, they release violent predators out of jail and straight into your communities, and then they are protected. they are protected people. a democrat victory in november would be a bright, flashing invitation to every human trafficker, drug trafficker -- think of it. human trafficking is the highest it has ever been in the history of this world. that is because of the internet. you wouldn't t

trump and how much money fred trump had given donald trump, there's just so much more than anybody thought. and then as we started to look at the money, then we realized all these tax schemes were behind it. just this incredible reporting journey of one revelation after another. sometimes you do these projects and you spend weeks where you're sort of thinking, we're at the end of the road. we never, ever had two or three days where we thought okay, we're running out here. we had so many roads to go down, and there is even more left. like, it was just an incredible, just discovery, and once we got these documents, it just opened up. it was an alice in wonderland moment for us where we were just like, wow. >> and going at it through that route that you're describing with the fred trump empire and the surprises and donald trump's finances around the timing of that sale and stuff, clearly that led you to public facing documents that were -- you could get to through the fred trump business empire. >> well, the great thing about real estate is public documents. this is where we started, and then

president trump: yes. because our justice department and fbi played right into their hands with the stupid investigation or whatever you call it. people say i'm not under investigation. i'm not a target of this investigation which nobody likes to say. but it played into their hand. if they want to sow chaos. they got it for nothing. we did it to ourselves. the chaos, the stupid chaos. it hasn't been talked about for a long time because people don't believe it. who is going to believe i call russia to give me help. and everyone does say, richard bird, they asked him, he's the head of the senate intelligence. they asked, did you see collusion in he says no, i didn't see collusion. but he said there was no collusion. as you know, the house, devin nunes, they came out with a ruling there was no collusion. but richard bird, they asked during the bloods in north and south carolina. they said what about this committee? he said we have found no collusion. trish: collusion aside. the concern is putin and the folks

and three times visited the elder trump at trump tower. on one visit not long before donald trump declared his candidacy. goldstone says trump was there listening to a rap song. he said look 90 million views, a rapper called mac miller who recently passed away has recorded a song. had 90 million youtube views and it's about me. >> and i said to him, maybe do you think you should listen to the words and what they're saying about you perhaps? just an idea. all this money, ain't that [ bleep ] >> and he went it doesn't matter, 90 million views. the third time we went he said to emin, maybe next time i see you i'll be hosting you at the white house. >> before there was trump in the white house, there was trump the candidate. and the next time goldstone set foot in trump tower would be when he arrived for the meeting. coming up -- >> i get a phone call and he said to me initially, i'd like you to set up a meeting with the trumps. here we go. discover. i like your card, but i'm absolutely not paying an annual fee. discover has no annual fees. re

we know donald trump now admits to dictating a false statement about that meeting to donald trump jr. we know that after he was told that russia was interfering in the election in mid-august 2016, he still went out and lied and said, it's a hoax, there's no reason to believe this. so you can't take anything they say. it sounds hyperbolic but you can't say anything they say at face value because they have this long history, present and in the past, of lying and doing things that are either fraudulent, and as the "times" put it, outright criminal. >> so what you're digging into is what the past tells us about what they may be reaping or what's coming. you wanted a line, i'll give you injury garcia. if you plant ice, you're going to harvest wind. >> okay, i'll give you a box of rain for that. >> phil lesh, right? >> that's the grateful dead too. >> phil lesh grateful dead, he didn't have any songs. interesting that you're a phil lesh fan. >> celebrate with a bottle of ripple. >> wow. >> there's a lot we can trade back. >> we'll call katy tur, do a full grateful dead reunion -- >> no, no,

>> donald trump had two choices. either he comes out and says, yes, i had the affair, yes, i directed the payment, or he calls michael cohen a liar. those are really the only two choices. >> it sounds pretty clear. >> it's pretty clear, because michael cohen is either telling the truth or he's not. i don't know if donald trump had much of a choice. the whole saga here starts with, in january, michael cohen saying, "didn't happen." by february he's saying "wasn't illegal." then by april trump is saying, "i didn't make any payments. you have to talk to my personal lawyer michael cohen." by may you have giuliani on his first day on the job actually i am reply -- implicating the personal finance plan saying it wasn't legal. the whole story is muddled from beginning to end. michael cohen doesn't come out looking like the most credible person. nor does donald trump, but there is so much evidence that michael cohen was a fixer for donald trump and so many accusations related to playoffs, including that recording, if you rem

there are tax returns of trump companies, trump partnerships, trump trusts. fred trump's estate tax returns is in the building right now. it's incredible that we have it. and that opened a door to understanding a huge transfer of wealth that happened and gave us so much more information to be able to understand the tax games that were played. and then once you sort of pull this string, the whole thing unraveled. >> a look there at showtime's new documentary that follows the team of "new york times" investigative reporters as they uncovered the information that led to the exclusive report about trump's taxes. the film debuts this sunday night and we're going to have much more from the explosive report straight ahead. but, joe, you have something else on your mind right now, apparently. >> i do this morning. willie, we've been ripped off again. >> what? no, you haven't. >> how many times have people taken our experiments and used them to win nobel prizes. >> did they do it again this year? >> they did it again this year. >> come on. >> professors claiming they

does this make people decide to support trump, not to support trump? i'm skeptical. i've gotten very skeptical that pretty much anything can do that. >> you know what? on some level, move the needle or not, it doesn't matter. the truth coming out in this exhaustive reporting is important enough. rob, how much work did it take, would it take to avoid taxes like this, to engage in these tax schemes? laid out in here, that are confusing to the layman. >> well, first off, you're talking about schemes. a lot of this is just standard tax planning for people with high net worth. >> yeah. >> and some of the things that happened that are perfectly legal under estate tax look awfully weird to people that weren't tax lawyers. and you're seeing that with some of the trusts and some of the valuations that are mentioned in the piece. there's definitely a lot of work, a lot of lawyers, accountants, valuation experts that, you know, worked on this. and the irs audited from what i understand. >> yeah. there is that element of it. harry, i want to look at the numbers again because the

trump: right. ms. chinn: and the work that you've done with secretary perdue to get many out into our rural communities, we really appreciate the reverse-path auction through the fcc. missouri was awarded $254 million of that. it's going to connect 95,000 homes to high-speed internet. and we just really appreciate it. missourians appreciate what you're doing on their behalf to make their rural communities vibrant again, and to help the agriculture industry pass on to that next generation of farmers and ranchers. pres. trump: great. well, it's my honor. and you have a great race going on out there. ms. chinn: we do. pres. trump: and that will make a big difference. a very positive difference, the outcome. i won't say it because i'm not a political person, so i won't discuss that. [laughter] i won't discuss that in front of the press, okay? go ahead. how about yourself? ms. cundiff: that's funny. so missouri is well represented here. again, i'm from st. charles, missouri, representing the community banki

trump, trump's been a white nationalist from the beginning. the fact that he just announced it to the world or a huge rally is just indicative of how much his appeal has really shrunk in the two years that he's been in office. he was able to dance around the margins for a long time by claiming, well, you know, i'm a progressive, or i'm this or that. he danced around it. but now he knows, my core constituency, the only future this presidency has, is to be an explicit white nationalist and say, it is us, this small 26% of the u.s. population that wanted him against everybody else in america who actually wants a fundamental future that we can all benefit from. i'm happy that he's being this honest because i think this is the beginning of the end of him having any sort of appeal outside of the maniacs who want to listen to him in that room. >> i think we can all agree donald trump is the most ignorant president in history, but today he used ignorance as a defense in an answer to a question. and for the first time, i actually have doubts about whet

trump. they say the attention today should be focused on the victims of saturday's anti semitic massacre. there are those who want president trump to be there. this all comes as the first funerals are being held today. among those being laid to rest, brothers david and cecil rosenthal and dr. jerry rabinowitz. we're on the ground in pittsburgh where apparently a protest has sprung up. miguel, how are the pittsburghers you're talking to -- how do they feel about the president's visit? >> reporter: look, jake, i have not seen a person with a dry eye in this neighborhood all day. people walking their dogs, moving around the neighborhood, and now this. that sadness, that absolute shock at what has happened has turned into anger with news of the president's visit. there are several hundred people here at this protest getting ready to march, just as the president is expected to land in pittsburgh and move around the city. there is a second protest in the neighborhood. president donald trump in thi

although the trump organization vowed not to pursue new foreign ventures while trump is in office. there's wide overlap between his business interests and the international relationships he must navigate as president. a chinese government owned bank runs a twentieth floor of trump tower in new york city at a trump property adjacent to the un saudi arabia and india own apartments. the new unit there is this year. from post foreign dignitaries at mar-a lago his private club where membership rates doubled after his election his companies have been granted approval for trademarks in china even as the president negotiated trade policy with its leader so far i have got nothing absolutely nothing but the potential conflicts of interest are many and they've raised charges that trump is violating the us constitution and the new. charges are laid out in several lawsuits one of which is now focused on the trumpeted national we decided last year because it was a violation of this country's oldest anti-corruption law and that is the emoluments clauses both foreign and domestic. we would like a

trump. right? and the irony is that story really comes from for a lot of voters what they learned about the president on "the apprentice" which is actually sort of -- it is reality television, and it's quite fictitious. so now you have actual reality bumping up with the fiction of reality tv. and so that is huge and cannot be overstated. at the same time, again, what we'll have to wait and see, this literally just broke, one thing that struck me especially about the president's core group of supporters, the president has often been able to say to things like making products overseas that otherwise would be unacceptab unacceptable, wouldn't you have done the same thing? wouldn't you, too, have avoid e taxes if you could? that's smart business. we don't know what his response will be. on one hand, you're right, it total he undercuts the myth of president trump, dealmaker, the businessman. on the other hand, it will be interesting to see if the president can find a way to talk his way out of th

they bought an entire floor of trump world. the trump world plaza. for their mission at the united nations. more recently, they have been patronizing the hotels. and all of this reflects back on this issue that still dogs the trump administration, are they making good public policy, or are they doing things that pad their wallets? and that raises of course the specter of jared kushner, who has been trump's lead ambassador, essentially, to the middle east, and especially to saudi arabia. there has been speculation as to whether the people who were put in the hotel and imprisoned by the crown prince, if he got those names from u.s. intelligence sources that jared kushner passed along to him. what was kushner's goal in doing that? kushner at the time that he was lobbying both sources of money in the middle east, china, and russia, was desperately trying to bail out a skyscraper that the family was in debt for on fifth avenue. trump himself would be very hard-pressed to locate most middle eastern nations on a map. they have been full bore on saudi arabia

listen, he defended trump, lied for trump, engaged in unethical business practice for trump and only saw the light because federal prosecutors were knocking on his door. of course, he should not go on the campaign trail. but the real problem for trump is that he has engaged in unseemly behavior. we know that. he never set up any fire walls between his business, his campaign and his family. that's where michael cohen comes into play. that's where paul manafort comes mayo play, that's where people in the trump organization come into play. so mueller may release the findings on his report on collusion and obstruction of justice, but those court cases can unfurl much further than that. >> ai think collusion is going o be very big. >> you think they're going to find conspiracy. >> yeah, and obstruction. i don't know if it's enough to convict. trump got all alarmed this week, the witch hunt stuff and all of this. and that was after a story appeared that cohen spent 50 hours with justice people. trump accuses cohen of lying, right? >> he did lie for trump a lot. >> wait a second. but the li

trump mortgage was a disaster. trump university was a fraud. i mean, he's not as rich as he claims to be. >> maybe it's that president trump doesn't earn as much as he told everyone. maybe he's not as rich as he says he is. >> president trump is a phony, a fraud. his promises are as worthless as a degree from trump university. >> final word, david? >> well, if president trump is a billionaire, i'm the most handsome 24-year-old man in america. >> well, your facts are handsome, and we need more pretty facts in a world of lies. david k. johnson, thank you for coming on "the beat." up ahead, hollywood taking on the trump era and satirizing a new movie. one of the stars is on "the beat," straight ahead. only half the story? at t. rowe price our experts go beyond the numbers to examine investment opportunities firsthand. like e-commerce spurring cardboard demand. the pursuit of allergy-free peanuts. and mobile payment reaching new markets. this is strategic investing. because your investments deserve the full story. t.rowe price. invest with confiden

donald trump likes strong men. just last week in west virginia, he said the saudi king, i love him heft is a friend of mine. don't forget, chris, where did donald trump go first when he was elected president? the very first president not to go to canada or mexico. he went to saudi to do a sword dance with the saudi royals. he loves these guys. so of course they will have gotten a green light for the crackdown, for purge, and now for this alleged murder. i can't believe, and you look at the comments coming out over washington, d.c. mike pompeo saying the saudis should conduct a thorough investigation. what, they're going to investigate the murder they carried out? how does that make any sense? >> he disappeared in their consulate. i keep hearing people say there should be an investigation. it should be unhand the man. >> cctv. there is no cctv. >> produce him or you are guilty. thank you so much. i really appreciate it. >> thanks, chris. >> that is "all in" for this evening. >>> ambassador nikki haley announces her

denouncing against donald trump, a check on trump power that would be enough. they got lulled into a place where looking at the polling and looking at that gap in enthusiasm they didn't think they needed a positive message. basically run against trump. now they're in a situation because of that break that happened with the kavanaugh confirmation hearings it's just not enough to be against trump. again, just the circumstances made it look like it's enough. they have issues that are on the right side of in terms of public opinion. they're driving those issues in those earned media, paid media, across the board. it may be too late for them to fix that problem given how close election day is. >> lisa, off of this conversation, would you agree that the democrats are back on their heels, have been back on their heels for quite some time, they have a terrifically pow powerful wing who can't wait to take control of the house and all they talk about is impeaching the president. all they have to do is if you have a child who's sick, you better pay that the republicans do

today president trump's top economic adviser says they are setting up a meeting between president trump and president xi of china. is that helping to erase any of these market worries? >> well, it's interesting. i think you may see a head fake between now and the mid terms in november where, you know, president trump comes in, maybe cuts some kind of deal with the chinese. maybe they appreciate their currency a little bit. maybe we see some easings of tension but i don't think this is going away. i think we'll be back here several times in the next few weeks and months talking about these things because this is an extension war. the war that -- this is an existential war. >> what are we expecting from the markets tomorrow, alison, more bad news? >> tomorrow begins third-quarter earnings season. expectations are high that companies will report positive earnings so many traders say if we get the positive earnings, it may settle down the market, but there's still a lot of uncertainty and a lot that rona was talking about. the uncertainty with the tariffs. that could wind up hitting compani

only one thing, letting donald trump and men like donald trump get away with everything. joining us is former deputy assistant attorney general elliot williams. elliot, we can put back up that ad. this says bring back the death penalty. bring back our police just to show that donald trump is consistent over time. he hasn't changed at all. he made a statement way late. fast forward to october of 2016. this was donald trump's statement about the central park five. this is him as a presidential candidate. they admitted they were guilty. the fact that the case was settled with so much evidence against them was outrageous. that is donald trump still saying the central park five were still guilty. so donald trump and due process really haven't met. >> i know exonerated. but i think they got a $41 million settlement. so the courts have blessed their position on this. so there are all kinds of inconsistencies with how the president of united states treats due process and people's entitlement of due process. immigration, the entire immigration policy of this administration has bee

. >> tonight, melania trump in her own words. the first lady in an exclusive revealing interview with abc's tom llamas. no questions off limits. from immigration -- >> it was unacceptable for me to see children and parents separated. it was heartbreaking. >> to her personal cause as first lady. >> i will be hit with criticism talking about cyber bullying. but it will not stop me to do what is right. >> and that wardrobe choice with a message. >> let's talk about the jacket. >> the jacket. >> this special edition of "nightline," "being melania, the first lady," will be right back. a more powerful way to stay connected. it gives you super fast speeds for all your devices, enhanced coverage, and lets you control your network with the xfi app. it's the ultimate wifi experience. xfinity xfi. simple. easy. awesome. get started with xfinity for $34.99 a month for 12 months. plus ask about xfi pods for even more coverage. click, call or visit a store today. >>> this special edition of "nightline," "being melania, the first lady," continu

nor does donald trump. but there's so much evidence that michael cohen was a fixer for donald trump and so many accusations around payoffs related to donald trump including that tape recording if you remember about karen mcdougal. >> that lanny davis played. >> that lanny davis played. certainly there's a lot of indication that this was the relationship between donald trump and michael cohen. what stands up in court is a different story, but we know michael cohen has been talking to investigators. >> as a former fed you know what you feds can do to people. eli stokols, can trump distance himself any more from cohen? has obviously just decided he's going to weaponize this witness. >> yeah, he's decided this is the response to all of the investigations, to fight these legal battles in the court of public opinion and to just trash everybody who is coming after him, and now that includes michael cohen. as maya said, the credibility of both these guys is not that great, but if you just take what the president sa

trump needs to be the bigger person. well, it comes back at you if you're the governor of pennsylvania or -- and, look, i have good relationships with rich -- >> the allegheny county executive. >> he's a good man and lives in that neighborhood and i know tensions are running high. it could have been an opportunity for rich to step up and do something that may not be politically smart and do something and, you know, show that we can be bigger than this. that we can forgive and we can move forward and i think they missed an opportunity. >> joan, let me bring you in. president trump insisted he was going to visit pittsburgh to honor the victims. he went to the synagogue. he put stones on the not real graves but the faux graves of the 11 victims. isn't santorum right? this was an opportunity -- i get why people are mad at president trump and i get why people in the community are angry but wasn't this potentially a moment for healing that not president trump but other people missed? >> i don't think so. jake, i really don't.

is the rise of donald trump. he is the one who built his political career by trashing the first black president barack obama, even questioned whether obama was an american citizen. trump followed on the so-called birth movement by stating that his residential -- starting his presidential campaign i should say, by calling mexicankens criminals, and racists. he's attacked an american judge, born of mexican parents of being unable to deliver justice because of his heritage. the speaker of the house a fellow republican said that was an explicit example of racism. and it was trump of course who recommended that all muslims be temporary band from entering the country. i don't have to remind you, and it grieves to me to go through this litany, but he called nfl players sons of -- to protest police brutality. he said a black woman was acting like a dog. he responded to have racism in charlottesville that fine people were on both sides of this tragedy. this is what comes out of the president. i think that's why a fox poll

this is vintage donald trump. he's going into a midterm election cycle where he and republicans are extremely scared about the prospects of losing at least the house if not the senate though they're probably more comfortable about the senate now. but they know that what worked for trump in 2016, and i heard you talking about this with your earlier panel, is injecting fear. injecting fear in his base to make sure that they are ginned up to make sure that they come out and vote. to make sure they don't stay home. to make sure they know what's on the line. and when he talks about this caravan of people that are all full of criminals and that democrats are funding them, it is to inject that kind of fear. i don't think it's going to work. >> okay. i disagree with you on that. >> we can talk about it in a minute. i'll tell you why. >> i'm not saying i believe -- i'm not saying i believe in any of it what he's saying is right. >> of course, i know. >> i think the worst thing that could have happened for democrats is for

, his father, to donald trump. other kids as well. but donald trump was especially taken care of. it includes getting thousands of dollars beginning when he was a kid, the million dollars by the time -- a year by the time he graduated from college. and the most significant things later in life have to do with the ways in which the trump family evaded estate taxes by messing with the valuations of properties that fred trump passed on to his kids so as to avoid -- >> when you say messing with the valuations, is that what normal people would call lying about your money? >> well, "the times" says that in many cases this involved outright fraud. i think they don't make that statement likely, you had multiple reporters investigating. but it had the effect of shrinking the estate tax bill for fred trump's estate from more than $500 million to about $50 million. the second thing that happened was that there were ways in which he was shoveling money to donald trump, putting big bets in a trump casino without placing any bet

trump? >>> stonewalling. tonight an aide to trump ally roger stone is more confident about his refusal to cooperate with robert mueller's russia probe. is the newest justice, brett kavanaugh, in his court? >>> and losing women. cnn's exclusive new poll drives home the widening gender gap and why it could cost the president's party control of congress. is the kavanaugh controversy giving democrats a greater advantage with the mid terms just four weeks away? >>> we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer and you're in "the situation room." ♪ >>> this is "cnn breaking news." . >>> we're following breaking news. hurricane michael is stronger and more dangerous tonight as it plows toward the gulf coast as a major life-threatening category 3 storm. a just-released forecast shows michael is on track to hammer the florida panhandle tomorrow as the most destructive hurricane to strike the region in decades. more than 20 million people in five states, they are at risk f

>> president trump: he took them. he took a trip with the same fbi agent i guess he was posing as a developer or something. the man stone cold took the stuff. i don't even think he should be allowed to continue on. >> laura: he responded by saying your week. >> president trump: i haven't heard that one lately. here's a guide that in my opinion is a stone cold and his city, tallahassee, is known as the most corrupt in florida and one of the most corrupt in the nation. he's a disaster and how he's even close to being tied is hard to believe. but florida can't have -- if florida has a governor like that, and i know florida better than i know practically anywher anywhere. florida will become venezuela. it will be a disaster and you have ron desantis, who was a harvard yale guy. he's a very good person. he's going to be a very good to a great governor. this other guy is a stone cold, in my opinion, he's a thief. how can you have a guy like this? and you look at his record. look at the job he's done as the mayor of tallahas

trump: right? [applause] together we have made extraordinary progress, but we are just getting started. if you vote to elect republican house and republican senate, we will continue to cut your taxes, cut your regulation, and raise your incomes very substantially. [applause] pres. trump: we, unlike the democrats, will protect medicare and social security. remember what i said during the debate. we will protect them. we will defend your second amendment and protect your right to free speech and religious liberty. [applause] pres. trump: with your help, mitch mcconnell, rand paul, and all of the people that work so well with us will continue to confirm incredible pro constitution judges, not radical far left judges who will rewrite your constitution, and replace your kentucky values. not going to happen. 84 judges, think of that, a record. we actually have a lot to go. 84 judges approved. what a difference. finish, maybe 50% of the court. we will fully secure the border, we will pass case law, stop s

trump and praised donald trump? >> right, and that's the question that attorneys love to ask in cross-examination. when were you lying? >> because we'll take either one. >> were you lying back then or both? i mean this relationship is just so phony and so ridiculous that everyone sees through it. now, they might still vote for him for whatever reasons, they agree with his politics or whatever. but no one can seriously think that donald trump and ted cruz are bosom buddies in any sense even though the president now calls him beautiful ted. >> here's the guy who spoke at the republican convention and refused to actually endorse donald trump in his speech to the republican convention. tonight he's saying i look forward to campaigning along side him in 2020. and jennifer, that'll be the first time he campaigns alongside if he does. let's listen to more what ted cruz is up against with beto o'rourke in texas. let's listen to beto o'rourke. >> we're here for everyone. we're going to make sure that we win this for everyone

trump represents trump. and so even though we've had unified government for the past almost two years, that's a republican senate, republican congress and a republican presidency, at the end of the day, the only person trump really cares about is himself. so he's saying if you all don't win, that's actually not my problem. and so now we're going to saturday seeing some republicans in particular districts saying, well, actually, it is our problem. aren't we a collective? and that's not how trump views his presidency. that's not how he views the party either. >> i think he's actually both right and wrong. so he's wrong in the sense that, you know, many, many voters who are mobilized and enthusiastic see him and the republican party as one and the same. he's tied to the party, but where he is right is that voters who are going to turn out and probably shift the politics in the house in particular in terms of the democrats, they're not turning out as just some knee-jerk reaction to him. they're turning out aroun

organization, eric trump. and he is outnumbered. aren't you always outnumbered in manhattan? >> eric trump: i'm just going to say this, there are a lot of of -- a tremendous amount of love in new york city. >> melissa: it when people come over and say, you guys do a great job and we want you all the time, but they are usually whispering. you are right about that. >> in ohio, that's not what happens. >> eric trump: in ohio no one is whispering. [laughter] >> melissa: secretary of state mike pompeo is set to make remarks in mexico city is a massive caravan of migrants moves towards the u.s. later, the nation's top diplomat is scheduled to meet with them president on the issue. this is the mexican government announced yesterday that it would seek to work with the united nations to set up shelters and processing centers for refugees along its southern border, a plane that the trump administration says it supports. mexico's ambassador to the u.s. pounding the movie last night on a "special report." >> the mexican g

act like trump. just say, act like trump. >> look, there are a lot of -- >> there we go. talk about the embassy movement. >> you want to answer for me? i'm good with t. >> i have the republican answer. we moved the embassy. >> every human being has virtue and vices. donald trump has great virtues for republicans and conservatives who feel like we lose a lot of cultural battles and size and scope of government. then he has the vices which is he says things in politics that offend people. sometimes he's over the line with some of his comments. i think actually the voters kind of get that. he fights so hard sometimes, he fights a little too much. and at the they'd like maybe -- even his own supporters once in a while want him to say he's winning. he's doing pretty well. the economy is doing great. >> i thought the question was his behavior. do you like it? >> i do. >> you do like his behavior? >> i do like his behavior. >> really? wow. >> there is much to donald trump i love moore kids to emulate, including the fact when he -- >> let's start with this. he says some things th

president trump: any questions? >> are you concerned folks and -- in a florida and georgia -- that there are not enough evacuations? >> yesterday we were concerned -- we did not like the level of evacuation activity we were seeing and governor scott, kudos to him, he leaned forward and used the wireless alert capabilities we have and sent out text messaging last night. we were trying to get people to really take the storm seriously. a lot of people did heed the warning, but there were those andchose to stay behind first responders may not be able to go in and rescue those who dial 911 at this point. president trump: the other governors, depending on what happens, they are either contacted or in the process. with governoralk rick scott of florida. very well coordinated with all of the states. one of the things that must be said is it is not so easy for some of these people to leave. some of the areas are very poor. not easy for a person without the necessary money to leave. we have sent buses, -- we are doing a lot o

president trump: we do a lot. another administration, like the kavanaugh victory -- it is a victory for the people, not for me. a lot of people would celebrate. we go back to business the next day. nikki and i talked about this a year ago and she really wanted to be here for about two years. we finished a big week last week at the u.n. with a tremendous success. nikki is going to be involved with us for a long time and she is going to help me also make that final pick. i want to get somebody really good. i think she has also brought a new level of prestige to that position. that position is in terms of people want it, easier now than it was before. nicky has brought great confidence and prestige to that position. >> [inaudible] president trump: that is a very good question. how do you keep your base energized now that you have the big kavanaugh victory? i would say just by winning, have to keep winning. we are doing a lot of winning. we are very happy with the u.s. embassy -- i don't want to use the word nafta bec

president trump: i appreciate it. thank you very much. >> i wanted to say thank you for everything you have done. i know you and the vice president worked really hard, and all these people, and it was really hard, like, my dad being gone, so thank you for bringing him back. president trump: well, you have got great parents, and it's terrific. we will close it out with you and we are so happy. james lankford, go ahead please. sen. lankford: thank you, mr. president. you have faced personal risk to yourself, and this process has been awe-inspiring for many of us to watch as well. we are incredibly grateful for you to be home and we look forward to having a celebration day like this for other americans from turkey who need to come home as well, to be able to finish that out. we look forward to getting those individuals resolved as well and back home. and today we are just grateful after two very long years for you to be home. i look forward to hearing your stories about driving through drive-through zen getting a hamburg

president trump: x don't really have a majority. i joke, if somebody has a cold, we don't have a majority. so i say go out and vote. we need more republicans and we'll win everything. we are getting the wall. we are getting everything. but we are wing on so many different front. but we need more are republicans. history says the president always seems to lose the mid-terms. but nobody had an economy like this. we have the greatest economy we ever had. the numbers came out about job openings. record numbers. trish: your critics on the left would say that's a result of president obama's policies finally taking effect. what do you say to that? president trump: if the opposition got into office instead of me. they were going to put more rules and regulations in, they were going to do things with taxes that would be a disaster. raise taxes. we had 4.2 last square. had the opposition gotten in, you would be at minus 4.2. you would be so low you would have job numbers that would be so bad. you would have companies flowing out of the countr

trump is on his hero journey right now. he might not have expected to have a crazy [ bleep ] like kanye west run up and support. i was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. i was connected with a neuro psychologist that works with the athletes in the nba and the nfl. i'm going to drop some bombs. 98 percentile iq test. so he said that i actually wasn't bipolar. i had sleep deprivation which could cause dementia. >> keep in mind these are just snippets of the sitdown. >> it was jaw dropping if you were watching that unfold in realtime. >> watching in awe especially as he drops the mf right there in the oval office. >>> joining us back molly hooper. so we watched that sitdown and the exchange back and forth, mostly from kanye west. how is that meeting going over with some on capitol hill there, especially we see the hug here and knowing that kanye west is going on and on and on with the president right there? >> wow. that was so loaded. i wonder if there's a neuro psychologist who could come up and talk to members of the senate to

ivanka trump was christian. and it was imperative for jared's parents that jared marry a jewish woman. >> and it broke them up. ivanka was devastated. >> the couple eventually got back together, and ivanka converted to judaism. they wed in front of 500 guests at trump national golf club in 2009, and they assumed their place in new york society. but friends say their life is very much centered at home. >> one thing they don't know about jared is what kind of father he is and husband he is. he's got to be a great husband. >> the couple balanced raising their three children with their real estate careers and personal ventures. >> so this is sample of some of our collections. >> ivanka trump marketed her own line of clothing and accessories and kushner invested heavily in tech companies. >> he just told me a lot about how he helped fund raise hundreds of millions of dollars for startups and helped get evaluations into billions of dollars. and it was clear he had a pretty incredible network. >> jared's rodex was mass

tuesday trump and thursday trump. saying i am a nationalist, the president saying that, where are we on the spectrum of what he's going to say that gets him to the "r" word where he just sort of admits it? >> you think he needs to say it? >> no, i don't. and i've already said it. you know how i feel about it. >> if at this point you need to hear from donald trump that he is a racist, i don't know what rock you have been hiding under for the last two years. if him coming down those escalators and calling mexicans rapists and criminals wasn't enough for you, if him attacking khizr khan wasn't enough for you, if him calling african-american athletes sons of bitches wasn't enough for you, if him equating neo-nazis with those who protest against him wasn't enough for you, i don't know what else you need to hear. >> thank you all. i appreciate it. >>> new comments tonight from president trump about the murder of jamal khashoggi. questioning whether the saudis used a bone saw while seemingly accepting their denials of involv

the trump tower meeting. michael cohen who has pleaded guilty and is cooperate with anything and everything the federal government wants to do vis-a-vis donald trump. it would seem even written answers could trip up someone like donald trump. >> so i think you're right. there are two reasons that law enforcement likes to speak with witnesses or with people that are involved in an event. one is to get information. they have plenty of information here. the other is to create accountability for people involved in criminal act. the best way is by having someone testify under oath in a grand jury, and if they're lying you can prosecute them for perjury. i don't think written questions will have exactly that same force, but i suspect these questions will be very carefully designed and there will be an effort to create some accountability. by the same token, the president's lawyers know the game being played here and they'll be careful to put a lot of caveats and possible outs into anything they submit in writing fo

trump, if you don't like trump, if there's something about trump you don't like, vote for us. is that what it boils down to for democrats? >> on a certain level. they have to make the positive argument around health care, corruption. i think there's one thing to say there's trump. you don't like him. he lies. then you have to make the positive argument because you want to excite your base. you want to turn out your base. you don't want folks to think the only reason they have to vote is because they don't like trump. when he invokes kavanaugh and he invokes the cavs vravan, this i trump playing it up. the caravan is the browning of american. look at the barbarians at the gate. both instances is he's doing what he does best. he's engaged in trumpian politics. politics of fear and it's really driven by the demographic insecurity underneath it's all. >> i'm fascinated by the fact he has a positive story to tell and clearly, deliberately and consciously decided not to tell it. >> you're talking about the committ economy? >> the economy, the economy, the economy. stock market up 40

this is a pattern within the trump campaign, and the trump transition. and i think the best that any of these members can do is try to find out about these contacts and staort out fact from fictio. the reason is not really for that purpose. he's being brought in so they can selectively push out some crazy conspiracy theory. that's what they tried with carter page, although it was to very little avail. >> and you're suggesting the republicans in the house are trying to do that. as you know, papadopoulos has been promoting these conspiracy theories to further president trump's claim that the entire mueller investigation is simply a witch hunt. what do you make of that? >> well, look. it's sad that even after these multiple convictions of multiple high-level people within trump orbit, not only the president, but you have people amplifying his witch hunt comments on fox. you have a whole basic information ecosystem propagating the president's line. it is deeply destructive. these deep state theories we used to basically laugh at third-world countries for hav

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trump is white noise with i'm into it. i'm white noise with that's outrageous and voters that want to live their best lives, be free and safe and secure, do they care? >> that's what i'm interested in seeing. >> besides the outraged set. >> there's a big portion of sort of the red america i guess, the trump side, that likes that or maybe that likes what they see as the huffing and puffing of media in response and like that trump brings it out in the media but my question has been one of the reasons republican prospects improved for november is donald trump's approval rating ticked up this month, month of october. this is one of the highest levels at his entire presidency. mid-40s. not great by a standard but by trump standards about as good as it's been and the level republicans think they can start to maybe compete to hang on to the house if he can hang on there. remember. he's not been doing necessarily this kind of inflammatory rhetoric in the last few weeks. if this becomes a big controversy or a couple more like this